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Pavlat AP Engl. #1

Literary Terms for the first half of FRANKENSTEIN

Tone The overall attitude of the author.
Tone towards... An author's attitude towards a character, item, event, or situation
Unity All parts of a literary work functioning together for a single purpose or effect; a sense of harmony or oneness; the sense that there is nothing extra and nothing missing.
Verisimilitude The false sense of reality in a work of fiction.
Flashback When the narrator stops the events in the plot to tell what happened earlier in time.
Foreshadowing When the narrator gives hints or clues about what will happen later in the story.
Formal Structure The visible shape of a text, including poetry v. prose, dialogue v. exposition, punctuation, sentence length and variation, paragraph length and variation, stanzas, line breaks, chapters, etc.
Frame Story A story that contains another story.
Embedded Story A story within another story; often, an extended flashback.
Point of View The perspective from which a narrator relates the story.
First-Person When the narrator is also a character in the story.
Third-Person Omniscient When the narrator is outside the story and has access to all characters' actions and thoughts.
Third-Person Limited When the narrator is outside the story and has access to only a central character's actions and thoughts.
Second-Person When the narrator includes the reader as a character in the story through the word "you."
The Enlightenment A philosophical movement starting in the West in the 1700s, rejecting the supernatural and teaching that the power of human intellect would ultimately solve every mystery and eliminate every problem.
Epistolary Novel A novel comprised entirely of letters or other correspondence.
Romanticism An intellectual movement rejecting the Enlightenment. Their literature embraced mystery, portrayed emotion as superior to intellect, depicted exaggerated personalities and situations, and focused on nature's beauty.
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